Competitiveness and Polycentrism for SMEs in Bogotá Region, Colombia

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-79
Author(s):  
Luis Armando Blanco ◽  
Fabio Fernando Moscoso Duran ◽  
Julián Marcel Libreros
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
City Region ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
The City ◽  
Edge Cities

This chapter studies the dynamics of Bogotá Region based on the New Economic Geography and the recent works on economic development in two big dimensions: the economic and the spatial structure; that is, productivity and polycentrism. The central thesis, supported on an econometric exercise for SMEs in 20 cities in Bogotá-Sabana region, is that with greater strength in the interior of Bogotá and less in the city region, a transition from monocentrism to functional polycentrism is consolidating. Krugman's Edge Cities model concludes that polycentrism comes from a process of spontaneous self-organization and produces a territorial order according to the mysterious ZIP law and consistent with efficiency, equity, and sustainability.

scholarly journals Anchoring the social economy at the metropolitan scale: Findings from the Liverpool City Region

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802097265
Author(s):  
Matthew Thompson ◽  
Alan Southern ◽  
Helen Heap
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
Anchor Institutions ◽  
Urban Economic Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Economies ◽  
The City

This article revisits debates on the contribution of the social economy to urban economic development, specifically focusing on the scale of the city region. It presents a novel tripartite definition – empirical, essentialist, holistic – as a useful frame for future research into urban social economies. Findings from an in-depth case study of the scale, scope and value of the Liverpool City Region’s social economy are presented through this framing. This research suggests that the social economy has the potential to build a workable alternative to neoliberal economic development if given sufficient tailored institutional support and if seen as a holistic integrated city-regional system, with anchor institutions and community anchor organisations playing key roles.

The new political economy of city-regionalism: renewed steps in Glasgow

2019 ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
David Waite
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Control ◽  
City Region ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Dominant Theme ◽  
City Regions ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City

The resurgence of city-regionalism has been a dominant theme in sub-national policymaking over the last decade. Underpinned by narratives of growth engines waiting to be unlocked through greater local control coupled with targeted interventions, city-regions are now a privileged spatial arena in the UK for seeking economic development agreements with higher orders of government. This chapter brings into focus Glasgow’s experience of city-regionalism and notably the re-emphasis brought about by the City Deal. In doing this, multiple political tensions hinging on a series of local, national and UK-wide relationships are sketched out. The chapter - in referencing the wider city-region literature and taking cognisance of the local post-industrial trajectory - poses a series of considerations concerning how and in what form city-regionalism may evolve in Glasgow.

Ecological Research on Public Facilities of the New City Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2740-2743
Author(s):  
De Ping Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
City Culture ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Environment

New city region as the extension of city economic development and progress of science, In the future, new city region will gradually replace the old city became the new center in the city. Rapid development of the new city region and progress of the requirements from the objective need aset of system belong to the city itself, public facilities is one of the contents, Therefore, the public facilities will mark the inherent cultural characteristics of the city,Culture, intelligence and technology will become the ultimate direction of the development of city public environment facilities.

scholarly journals Stability of Bifurcating Patterns of Spatial Economy Models on a Hexagonal Lattice

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 1850138 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Ikeda ◽  
H. Aizawa ◽  
Y. Kogure ◽  
Y. Takayama
Keyword(s):  
Scalar Field ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Bifurcation Analysis ◽  
Hexagonal Lattice ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
Spatial Economy ◽  
Numerical Bifurcation ◽  
Numerical Bifurcation Analysis

Self-organization of spatial patterns is investigated for a scalar field of a system of locations on a hexagonal lattice. Group-theoretic bifurcation analysis is conducted to exhaustively try and find possible bifurcating patterns. All these patterns are proved to be asymptotically unstable for general spatial economic models in new economic geography. Microeconomic interactions among the locations are expressed by a spatial economy model and all bifurcating patterns are demonstrated to be unstable by numerical bifurcation analysis.

scholarly journals SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE SPATIAL ECONOMY AND THE THEORY OF NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (4/2020) ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
M. V. Ivanova ◽  
◽  
A. S. Kozmenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Economic Space ◽  
Spatial Economy ◽  
Communications System

The modern political and economic processes have had a significant impact on the change in the economic policy of Russia and its “internal” economic space. As a result of the “sanction” blocking of the significant sectors of the economy, the importance of considering the spatial factor of socio-economic development in the basic development program documents has increased. The article examines the main approaches to spatial organization of the regional economy and strategic directions of spatial development in the context of the “Strategy of Spatial Development of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2025”. These approaches are based on the joint evolution of this organization and the regional settlement system under the influence of a multiple external and internal factors, including the implementation of a rational state policy of regional development. The study examines the main provisions of the spatial economy as an independent scientific field and the theory of new economic geography. It shows the methodological similarity between these two scientific disciplines. The article shows that the basis of spatial development is the integration of specific forms of spatial organization of the economy into large and / or largest agglomerations. The leading role in this integration belongs to the regional communications system, which unites economic centers localized in an allocated space into an integral system and ensures the economic space unity. The implementation of the spatial economy provisions is studied on the example of the Northern Sea Route as a regional communications system, which is in fact the center of the “assembly” of the Arctic space. The functional dominant of the agglomeration as a form of spatial organization of the regional economy is creating such high-quality life conditions that are optimized with the rational economic development of the regional space while maintaining the economic situation at an acceptable level. These are the conditions that form communicative ties, which are the framework for uniting various elements of the regional space.

scholarly journals Spatial structure and development of settlements in the Saint Petersburg agglomeration

Baltic Region ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Stanislav Lachininsky ◽  
Ivan Sorokin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Growth Area ◽  
The City

This article explores the spatial structure and development of settlements comprising the Saint Petersburg agglomeration. Previous studies and database sources, which were never used before (the Federal Tax Service [FTS] database and SPARK-Interfax), are analysed to reveal factors in the economic development of metropolitan areas as well as to understand how settlements develop in Russia’s second-largest city agglomeration. The borders and composition of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration are brought up to date. Examining the population size of the settlements helps locate the ‘growth belt’ of the agglomeration. Lists of major enterprises of the city and the region make it possible to identify patterns in the economic development of the study area. The SPARK-Interfax database aids in clarifying relationships between spatial elements of the agglomeration (its core and satellites) in the distribution of revenues of economic agents. Data on the location of the largest retail stores — shopping malls and hypermarkets — are used to identify the main centres of commerce in the Saint Petersburg agglomeration. A map chart has been drawn using 2GIS and Yandex Maps geoinformation services. An important step in agglomeration analysis is the identification of residential development hotspots. FTS data on property tax base are the main source of relevant information. FTS reports contain data on the number of residential buildings and units covered by the database. Further, FTS statistics is employed to trace income and job distribution across the study area. The current functions of settlement in the Saint Petersburg agglomeration have been determined. According to the findings, the spatial structure of the agglomeration has three groups of ‘backbone centres’. The agglomeration includes a core, a population growth area (‘growth belt’), commuting sources and recipients, and ‘backbone centres’.

scholarly journals New Economic Geography and the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Carl Gaigné ◽  
Jacques-François Thisse
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
The City

Sectors and industry regions – Case study italy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmuth Gomez ◽  
Gabriela Antošová
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Geography ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Regional Economic Development ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
New Economic Geography ◽  
Spatial Concentration ◽  
Italian History ◽  
Basic Parameters

The aim of the article is to describe the tangible and lasting uneven regional distribution of manufacturing in Italy, as the result of a historical reinforcing process. In doing so, we cite the basic parameters typically applied by the New Economic Geography approach and try to relate some global developments in the Italian history, with the seemingly outright influence of such specific theoretical parameters. The method is merely descriptive and uses a map and some manufacturing statistics for spotlight the actual sectorial distribution of employment as an evidence of the divergent process. For underpinning the analytical interpretation, we consult the previous contribution of some Italian economists and historians setting forth the consolidation of Italian manufacturing expansion and its startling spatial concentration. The descriptive style of the article ends up highlighting the pervasive influence of historical inertia on the regional economic development and the pertinence of New Economic Geography framework for interpreting the uneven distribution of manufacturing across the space.

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